FRANCE: Bomb for a Bordello

Out of
the provinces last week came stocky, brash Pierre Poujade, convoyed by
hundreds of his burly, leather-jacketed copains, and crying aloud
against the "Jews and foreign interests" who had betrayed France in
Algeria. Poujade was doing something he had sworn never to do: running
for a seat in the National Assembly, which he calls "the biggest bor
dello in France."

In the year since his shopkeepers' tax rebels had startled France by
electing 53 Deputies in the national elections (TIME, Jan. 16, 1956),
Poujade had gone nowhere but down. He had blustered...